Any success with non SSRI medication out there?

Good afternoon. I have posted here a few times about my recent journey with anxiety, and how zoloft didn't work for me after a short trial. I have tried 2 SSRI's now in my life, and both backfired terribly. Given that, just curious what others have had success with outside of that category. I have started seeing a psychiatrist (2 appointments so far) and she did prescribe trazadone for me to help with sleep which has been an issue with all this anxiety/worry. It does help, but I feel I need something to help on the other end during day to day functioning. Back in 2010 I went through my other period of anxiety after not being able to sleep for a week. I took that obsession over not sleeping and let it blow up into something much more debilitating. I saw a psychologist at that time who put me on klonopin in order to bring me down stress-wise so he could work with me on CBT. I did notice relief, and 2 months later things really cleared up for me. I suggested perhaps trying K again based on that experience, but my current psychiatrist is hesitant about a benzo stating that it takes away your natural ability to address the problem. I can see that, but I can also see I am stuck right now and may need help with medication. I never have had an addictive personality ever, and have a history to prove that. Any comments out there? I so much appreciate the comments to my other posts, thank you!

So you would recommend B for mild anxiety? How long did you take it? Did it take some time to kick in? Probably a safer alternative to klonopin from the sounds of it.

Diazepam as a success, for about 2-3 months. Will have to discontinue in future, very slowly.

I took Xanax for 3-4 months 3x daily to get me out of a terrible panic cycle. I got off it without any problems. A couple years later I had a bit of lingering anxiety that I didn’t like, so I started on a very low dose of lexapro, just 5 mgs. In the inbetween time, I took buspar, that is not an ssri. But, it usually only works on low to mid level anxiety, and like most medications, does not work for everyone.

Wow, great feedback here to those who responded to me! I meet with my psychiatrist this coming Wednesday and need to leave there with some prescription, things are just too stuck for me to try to work this out on my own right now. Sounds like my best options may be either buspar or effexor, or perhaps a short time on klonopin. I just get the sense my Psy only wants to use benzos as a last resort, but K did work for me years back when I had similar stuff going on. I will let you all know what happens here in a few days. Many thanks again, great to have people share things like this in order to make things easier!

here on this site -its all about helping with anxiety and its issues. if we can help-we will! usually as a team

I found out I had prostate cancer. that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I had been off ssri drugs for 3 years .I had coped fairly well with ups and downs but this was just too much. I had a terriable time starting back and it took 4 tries to find a med I could tolerate but I came tru eventually . if this wasn bad enough I became dependant on klonopin. everything is much better now . no more benzos and I found a very gentle ssri that works for me. cipralex 10mg . its a weaker form of Lexapro.